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nopCommerce Days 2018

Conference connecting global eCommerce experts

8-9 November, Las Vegas, USA

Speakers

Andrei Mazulnitsyn

nopCommerce team

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Andrei Mazulnitsyn

nopCommerce team

Topic: "Present and Futute of nopCommerce"

Actually, the name of Andrei Mazulnitsyn and nopCommerce were almost synonyms, until the expansion of the nopCommerce team: Andrei is the founder and lead developer of nopCommerce. He is developing nopCommerce since 2008 and directing the Nop Solutions since 2009. The aim of nopCommerce is delivering 100% free but hi-quality and scalable solution from the first click. Being CEO and directing nopCommerce worldwide does not stop Andrei from being the lead developer of nopCommerce: all crucial decisions on product's future come from Andrei. That keeps him super-busy. Besides developing the product Andrei is a loving father and enjoys traveling with his family.

Drew Casey

Google, Inc

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Drew Casey

Google, Inc

Topic: "Media Moneyball"

Drew Casey is a Head of Analytics - Business & Industrial at Google. He is a part of a Google Team for almost 6 years. He is experienced Head Of Analytics with a demonstrated history of working with large, B2B companies. He is providing insights and analysis to Google's B2B clients. Focused on bridging the gap between the CMO, CTO, and CFO. Strong business development professional graduated from Harvard University.

Sam Mallikarjunan

HubSpot

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Sam Mallikarjunan is an Executive Strategist at HubSpot and former Head of Growth at HubSpot Labs, the somewhat-secret experimental arm of the world's #1 Sales & Marketing platform. Sam teaches Digital Marketing at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education and the University of South Florida's Muma College of Business. He is also the co-author of the book "How To Sell Better Than Amazon" (which, thanks to the publisher, is ironically available for purchase on Amazon).

Ashley Ward

SEMrush

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Ashley Ward

SEMrush

Topic: "The Key to Writing Ad Copy for eCommerce That Converts on Social Media"

Ashley Ward is a Digital Marketing Strategist at SEMrush, an all-in-one digital marketing tool. Her passion is focused on helping businesses and marketing professionals gain long term ROI through teaching content and social media marketing techniques.

Speaking both internationally and throughout the US, Ashley regularly teaches workshops and speaks at conferences like Pubcon, BrightonSEO, SearchLove, Digital Summits, Retail Global, and SMS Sydney.

Ashley has co-authored the best-selling book “The Better Business Book V.2” and is a contributing writer to industry blogs such as Search Engine Journal and AuthorityLabs.

Jeffrey Fritz

Microsoft

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Jeffrey Fritz

Microsoft

Jeff Fritz is a senior program manager in Microsoft’s Developer Division working on some of the latest web technologies by leading the ASP.NET Web Forms Team. As a long time web developer and application architect with experience in large and small applications across a variety of verticals, he knows how to build for performance and practicality. You can find his first book, ‘Learn ASP.NET Core in 24 Hours’ on Amazon and other places where dead trees are sold. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays you can catch Jeff hosting a live video stream called 'Fritz and Friends' at live.jeffreyfritz.com. You can also learn from Jeff on Microsoft Virtual Academy and WintellectNow, follow him on twitter @csharpfritz, and read his blogs at jeffreyfritz.com and blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev

Сecil Phillip

Microsoft

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Сecil Phillip

Microsoft

Topic: "Serverless Workflows with Azure Functions"

Cecil Phillip is a software developer with almost a decade of experience with creating enterprise grade software solutions. Over his career, he has specialized in creating solutions using web technologies, .NET and Microsoft Azure. He has a passion for software architecture, testing and API design. Today, he's employed by Microsoft as a Cloud Developer Advocate where he helps guide developers on moving their applications to the cloud.

Scott Addie

Microsoft

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Scott Addie

Microsoft

Scott Addie is an avid blogger, a Telerik Developer Network author, and a technical evangelist of the modern web. Scott has reached masses of developers through blog posts, articles, and speaking engagements at user groups, code camps, and conferences across the globe. With a strong emphasis on JavaScript and the Microsoft web technology stack, He holds numerous industry-recognized Microsoft development certifications and has been named a Microsoft MVP twice in the award category of Visual Studio and Development Technologies. His thought leadership in the .NET community has also earned him a seat in the Telerik Developer Experts program. As a firm believer in giving back to the community, Scott is a frequent open source contributor to high-profile GitHub projects in the Microsoft developer ecosystem. In his day job as a “blue badge”, Scott produces ASP.NET Core content for docs.microsoft.com.

Richard Moot

Square

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Richard Moot

Square

Developer Evangelist at Square Has a love/hate relationship with JavaScript. When I am not programming/gaming/reading, I am probably just walking my dog.

Lauryn Smith

Baymard Institute

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Lauryn Smith is a senior usability researcher at Baymard Institute. The breadth of Baymard’s services means that one week she may be focusing on designing, conducting, and analyzing usability research. The next week she could be conducting a heuristic audit for a Fortune 500 company. Or facilitating on-site training for a week-long usability bootcamp. A highlight of 2018 for Lauryn was working with the International Trade Centre to facilitate a 5 day usability training in Rwanda as part of the United Nations initiative to unlock the power of e-commerce in developing economies to drive economic growth.

Quentin Usson

SendinBlue

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Quentin Usson, Head of Expansion at SendinBlue, has worked 4 years at SendinBlue. He started as a Business Developer when there were no Sales department, then as a Country Manager for France to lead SendinBlue's biggest market to date. He is now leading the International Expansion Team following a $36M Seed A fundraising in late 2017.

SendinBlue is an all-in-one marketing platform for SMEs & E-merchants (Email & SMS campaigns, Marketing Automation, Landing Pages, CRM, Retargeting) and is already a leader on most European markets. Nowadays, SendinBlue is used by 100k+ customers in 100+ countries and it can be plugged easily with any nopCommerce shop.

Deanna Kaufman

FedEx

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Deanna Kaufman

FedEx

Topic: "Global/cross-border e-commerce trends and shopper trends"

Deanna is a member of the FedEx Customer Solutions’ Solution Design & Implementation global team. She is a managing consultant working with a team of field-based consultants designing and implementing supply chain solutions for FedEx’s largest enterprise and global customers.

Deanna and her team focus on e-commerce and omni-channel retailing and support FedEx’s Ecommerce Vertical. She works with FedEx Marketing teams on ideation and new service development for several services that support omni-channel retailing and short-zone delivery.

Deanna joined FedEx in 1999 with 9+ years’ experience in international business, software globalization and localization with major corporations including AT&T and small consulting firms.

Krish Iyer

ShipStation

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Krish Iyer

ShipStation

Topic: "eCommerce Shipping Trends in 2019 and Beyond: What Do You Need to Do to Keep Up?"

Krish is a respected shipping executive with more than 17 years of industry experience with companies including FedEx, Pitney Bowes, Neopost, and now ShipStation. An expert in cross border e-commerce, international fulfillment, and shipping technology, Krish is often quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, DC Velocity, Logistics Management, and Business News Daily. He is currently the Director of Strategic Alliances for ShipStation where he is focused on relationships with e-commerce marketplaces and fulfillment providers.

ShipStation, a leader in the e-commerce shipping industry, simplifies the lives of online retailers with web-based software designed to make processing, fulfilling, and shipping orders as efficient as possible. ShipStation integrates with all of the most popular marketplaces, shopping carts, and top carriers. ShipStation's mission is to focus on the user experience and build the best shipping software around.

Steve Hoffmann

Avalara

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Steve Hoffmann

Avalara

Topic: "What does the US Supreme Court decision on South Dakota v. Wayfair case mean for businesses?"

Steve is an experienced E-commerce Strategist, having spent the last 8 years helping to promote merchant success, focusing on ROI and Best Practices. His value is on full display with the Avalara team as a Strategic Alliances Manager charged with ensuring all players in our ecosystem have what’s needed so that tax compliance is done right. “Making taxes less taxing!”

Alex Tretyakov

FoxNetSoft

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Alex Tretyakov

FoxNetSoft

Topic: "Some tips how to improve performance of highly loaded sites on nopCommerce. The look as C# and MSSQL developer."

Alex develops high loaded and fault-tolerant systems of different levels for the last 20 years. He is an architect, business analytic and chief developer of ERP system for a large trading company in Ukraine. In his work, Alex uses a stack of Microsoft products. His main specialization is MS SQL Server and C#. He met NopCommerce in 2010 and enchanted by its performance. Alex compares the work of developer as the work of surgeon :). Developers should do their work carefully thinking about the consequences and prospects. By profession, he is a mathematician. He likes bike riding and hiking in his free time, but first of all Alex likes to gain new knowledge too.

Steve Smith

Ardalis

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Steve Smith

Ardalis

Topic: "Architecting ASP.NET Core Solutions"

Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. Steve has published several courses on Pluralsight, covering DDD, SOLID, design patterns, and software architecture. He's a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and Insider, a frequent speaker at developer conferences, an author, and a trainer.

Steve works with companies that want to avoid the trap of technical debt by helping their teams deliver quality software, quickly. Steve and his team have been described by clients as a "force multiplier", amplifying the value of existing development teams. Steve's client list includes Microsoft, Quicken Loans, Celina Insurance, and many other satisfied customers.

Krunal Jariwala

nopAccelerate

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Krunal Jariwala

nopAccelerate

Krunal Jariwala, CEO & founder of nopAccelerate, has more than 8 years of experience in helping customers with technology solutions. He is a management degree holder with competencies in Information Technology. His core strength lies in understanding the business needs & meeting the same with available technology to meet business goals. He focuses on the efficient software project management, agile development, and SOLID software architecture design to increase productivity in everything he works with. Over the last several years he helped numbers of small businesses all over the world in implementing solutions that helped them achieve business goals, increase revenues, improve productivity using technology solutions. He has an active interest in e-commerce strategic IT consulting, performance & conversion optimization and cloud technologies.

Aman Sood

TMotions Global Limited

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Aman Sood

TMotions Global Limited

Aman Sood is founder and Managing Director of TMotions, a software development company based in London, specializing in enterprise solutions for B2B and B2C customers. TMotions has developed and delivered online shops for a variety of customers using NopCommerce platform. In the last couple of years TMotions has further developed expertise in building B2B and enterprise solutions using NopCommerce as the base platform and customizing and integrating the solutions to specific customer needs. This has created a unique blend of implementing NopCommerce based B2B and B2C service offerings to the customers. TMotions is now focussing on addressing the upcoming challenges in the e-commerce industry, as well building capabilities and solutions for the new trends.

John Baluka

ICompare Solutions

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John Baluka

ICompare Solutions

John has been developing software with the Microsoft stack for 20+ years. For most of the last 10 years, John has been a sub-contractor, business owner, and a Dad. John enjoys researching and applying new technologies to real world examples.

For the last couple of years, John has found nopCommerce to be an excellent example of an enterprise-level solution for a .NET developer and continues to discover what is possible with open source. For John, nopCommerce has become a playground to implement and compare other various technologies like Angular and React on the front-end , NHibernate and Dapper for data access, or Oracle on the back-end. John is currently working on a UI Test Automation solution with TestStack for nopCommerce that will be released as open source.

Atul Rungta

nopAdvance

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Atul Rungta

nopAdvance

Atul started his own small software company to cater local software market in 2013. This helped him with unique marketing, business analysis, team leading, project management experience and fine software engineering skills. After spending several years as a CTO in a big Software Development company, he decided to start his own business. Within a total experience of around 8 years in IT, I developed applications ranging from simple business applications, hack / spy / security applications for Windows platforms, MLM Web applications, eCommerce and cloud applications, etc.

Jon Ballard

Foremost Media

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Jon Ballard

Foremost Media

Topic: "Testing your way to increased sales"

Jon Ballard is the CEO and Founder of Foremost Media, Inc.. a US-based digital agency working with clients across the country to help them harness the power of digital marketing. Jon has been an entrepreneur for more than 22 years, founding several successful start-ups. He is a thought leader in the online marketing industry who regularly presents at conferences and seminars around the country. Foremost Media is a Nop Certified Gold Partner and works with the platform daily.

RJ Hatch

Bayshore Solutions

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RJ Hatch

Bayshore Solutions

Topic: "Developing Nop Plugins and Themes the Agile Way"

With over 16 years of writing custom solutions in the Microsoft space and a background in SQL Server Performance, RJ has played a significant role in helping to automate mundane business tasks through development in the NopCommerce platform. A wearer of many hats both literally (owning over 30 hats) and figuratively, RJ possesses the ability to quickly identify problems a business is experiencing and locate problem pieces of code with ease. In RJ’s most recent project, he has uncovered a number of ways to run a more efficient project via the agile methodology, allowing enhancements and deliverables to reach the ‘done-done’ status and turned around to customers in a timely manner.

Boyko Bonev

Nop-Templates

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Boyko Bonev

Nop-Templates

Topic: "Continuous integration/deployment for nopCommerce"

Bio Boyko has been working as a .NET developer for many years when in 2010, with his co-workers and friends, he founded Nop-Templates.com. Nop-Templates.com is a leading provider of nopCommerce themes and plugins bundled into complete eCommerce solutions. At Nop-Templates.com Boyko leads the plugin development team, who play a vital role in the success of the company by producing the fabulous plugins, every Nop-Templates.com theme comes with. Boyko considers himself a software craftsman and always strives for perfection. This could easily be spotted in the company products used by thousands of customers in over 100 countries around the world. Boyko loves to automate everything both in his work and within the company development infrastructure. So you should not be surprised when you see a reply from him telling you that the feature you have requested a minute ago is already available for download.

Dmitry Kovrizhko

ISDK

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Dmitry started as a web-developer in early 2000x programming corporate intranet portals and connected enterprise systems. Since 2010, he founded ISDK with an initial focus on SharePoint development only. Over time, ISDK has expanded its business directions. Last 5 years ISDK main expertise lies in corporate e-commerce solutions as well as its integration with enterprise business systems such as ERP, CRM, WHM, etc.

Yevgeny Chan

Irvine Software Company

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Yevgeny Chan

Irvine Software Company

Topic: "Rocket Man"

As one of the principals at Irvine software Company, a premier technology consulting firm specializing in web and application development, providing solutions to small and midsize businesses across the globe, Yevgeny’s tremendous effort in developing simple solutions into complex business requirements with nopCommerce. Yevgeny is a certified nopCommerce developer and has over 17 years of Software Development experience. Over the years he has been involved in a multitude of development projects. He has been delivering solutions to the clients targeting various systems, such as mainframe, client/server, web, and service oriented environments. First implementation of the NOP Commerce solution for one of our clients was done using version 1.8. Since than Yevgeny created dozens of NOP Commerce solutions with various complex customizations and integrations to fit customer business needs.

Cory Mekanik

Irvine Software Company

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Cory Mekanik

Irvine Software Company

Topic: "Rocket Man"

As the founder of Irvine software Company, a premier technology consulting firm specializing in web and application development, providing solutions to small and midsize businesses across the globe, Cory’s role has been to ensure the company stays on the competitive edge of technology and work with the incredible team of talents at Irvine Software company to provide complex business solutions utilizing nopCommerce to wide spectrum of businesses across the world. Cory is a nopCommerce certified developer and has over 2 decades of professional experience developing software, web and enterprise mobile applications for various industry focused businesses including manufacturing, retailers, professional firms, entertainment industry, and government agencies.

Peter Larsson Tornedal

Brandon Company

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Peter Larsson Tornedal

Brandon Company

Topic: "Intersport International B2B project"

Peter built his first ecommerce website in 1999 and quickly understood the potential of being able to serve customers online instead of physical stores or by mail order and phone. After a few years away from ecommerce he's now happy to be back in the field and working for Brandon developing web shops for international companies using nopCommerce as a platform. Brandon, headquartered in Sweden, has been part of the PUMA Group since 2009. We’ve had the privilege of working with many large international brands and their brand merchandise for more than 25 years now. This has in turn allowed us to build up extensive industry knowledge. Ecommerce is of big importance to us and we would not have made it this far without nopCommerce.

Alexander Moss

Aperture Labs, Inc.

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Alexander Moss

Aperture Labs, Inc.

Topic: "Custom Safety Products case study"

Alex Moss is the founder and president of Aperture Labs inc., an eCommerce focused digital agency based in Milwaukee, WI. For the past 10 years Alex has been working in the eCommerce space designing and building sites for a diverse range of businesses. His systems have powered some of the largest and most highly trafficked eCommerce sites in the world and have processed over $1B in eCommerce transactions. Alex has been working with NopCommerce since v3.30 and is a firm believer in not modifying core code to enhance and extend the platform. When not at work Alex enjoys spending time with his family and participating in amateur motorsports events.

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Agenda

nopCommerce CEO will uncover the future of nopCommerce. The most important part of the speech is unveiling the roadmap including both marketing and development. He'll also tell more about what has been achieved in the past year, and about the platform current state.

4

10:05 am

How to sell better than Amazon

Sam Mallikarjunan

HubSpot

Amazon makes almost $300,000 a minute. Every minute. Every day. In this era of eCommerce megasites, it may seem impossible for individual businesses to remain competitive -- but it isn't. In this session, you'll learn how to define and target segments of the buying cycle in which Amazon isn't an issue. You'll learn the specific analytics and economics frameworks you need to plan for and execute a successful eCommerce growth campaign. You'll come away from this session with a solid understanding of how you can apply the latest research in strategy and innovation frameworks to help you sell better (if not more) than even Amazon.

5

10:45 am

Coffee break & Networking, Exhibition openning (until 7:00 PM)

6

11:20 am

Architecting ASP.NET Core Solutions

Steve Smith

Ardalis

ASP.NET Core provides better support for clean, testable, maintainable architectures than any of its predecessors. Learn the underlying principles that apply to project/solution organization, how best to arrange your projects to support clean code, and how to refactor existing solutions toward this architecture.

What does the US Supreme Court decision on South Dakota v. Wayfair case mean for businesses?

Steve Hoffman

Avalara

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of South Dakota, granting the state authority to impose sales tax obligations on out-of-state transactions. Remotes sellers will have a new set of obligations and challenges ahead of them, while states could potentially gain billions in revenue. But what does it mean for your business? We’re brought in two leading tax policy experts throughout the series to break down the ruling and explain: - Whether remote sellers need to file and register in more states - How the ruling affects future laws across other states - How to determine whether you’re on the hook for sales tax based on where you conduct business We’re brought in Steve Hoffmann , Strategic Alliances Manager at Avalara for an overview of… How economic nexus is triggered Which types of companies are most affected What the impending Supreme Court decision will mean How to determine whether you’re on the hook for sales tax based on where you conduct business

7

12:05 pm

Intersport International B2B project

Peter Larsson

Brandon AB

Peter will talk about the case study of Intersport International selling “in store” material for 5000+ physical stores in the world. The setup thay have built are really interesting in a nopCommerce way with different shopping cart types and orderflows.

The Key to Writing Ad Copy for eCommerce That Converts on Social Media

Ashley Ward

SEMrush

Writing ad copy for a Facebook advertisement is completely different from writing ad copy for Google Ads. A user on Google has intent, and is clearly looking for a solution. Whereas a user on Facebook or Twitter is casually browsing their News Feed, not expecting to engage with an ad. Which is why you need to know how to master the fine art of ad copy writing for any advertising venue. In this session, we’ll look at how an eCommerce business can:

​Write ad copy that attracts your demographic ​on social media

​Promote your products using certain terms and phrases on social media

​Analyze the different channels and tactics for each media channel856

See what kinds of advertisements your competitors are making

G​ain new ad copy ideas and A/B test

8

12:45 pm

Lunch & Networking

9

2:00 pm

Building the Real-time Web with ASP.NET Core SignalR

Scott Addie

Microsoft

Much has changed since the 2013 inception of ASP.NET SignalR. The relevance of jQuery has diminished, WebSockets is widely adopted, and Microsoft has reimagined the entirety of ASP.NET with ASP.NET Core. But one thing hasn’t changed; real-time web apps are still extremely useful. With the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1, SignalR reemerges with some new characteristics. Building the real-time web has never been easier.

Transform your visitors into paying clients with Marketing Automation

Quentin Usson

SendinBlue

Converting your website visitors into paying clients is crucial to your marketing. Learn how to set up a Marketing Automation strategy in order to send the right message to the right person, at the right time and encourage your visitors to become clients. We will see together 5 practical examples of automated workflows you should have in place for your e-shop.

10

2:45 pm

Top 10 .NET Developer Tips and Tricks when working with nopCommerce

John Baluka

Where is the connection string? Why won't my plugin load? As a .NET Developer, some things are not so obvious in any code base. This past year, I have been working on nopCommerce projects full-time. I have discovered a lot of tips and tricks to share to help you move past common road blocks. At the end of this talk, I look forward to hearing from the audience about any additional tips or tricks.

Do More, Server Less

Richard Moot

Square

A tour through different useful applications of serverless computing and tools to use across different cloud providers. Follow up with a walkthrough of a completely serverless application that I built to demonstrate some of those uses.

- Initially go through what serverless computing really is and clear up some confusion that arises around serverless computing vs frameworks that have adopted the name. - This would lead into a brief tour of the popular serverless frameworks that are out there and how useful each one is. - A tour of cloud provider’s serverless offerings (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, IBM Whisk) - A high level overview of the application I built and what it consists of. - Things to watch out for when you build a fully serverless application

11

3:25 pm

Coffee break & Networking

12

3:50 pm

Advanced ASP.NET Core Configuration and Deployment

Jeffrey Fritz

Microsoft

You've seen the introductions to ASP.NET Core, and you may have written a simple application or two. How does it work? How can you customize the interactions with your users? What is middleware, and why is configuration so tricky? In this session I'll look at some advanced project configuration, publication, and deployment topics with ASP.NET Core including how to best use Docker with your ASP.NET Core application.

eCommerce Shipping Trends in 2019 and Beyond: What Do You Need to Do to Keep Up?

Krish Iyer

ShipStation

While technology changes rapidly in e-commerce, so do trends in e-commerce shipping. This session will explore such topics as:

USPS and Amazon shipping changes that have changed the industry, including last mile shipping options;

New carriers, including regional carriers and same day, that have affected the shipping landscape;

New technology, including Shipping API's, that have changed the landscape from warehouse/premise-based shipping into the hands of drop shippers, c2c vendors and others in integrating new technologies.

This session will cover these trends and how to plan for them in 2019 and beyond.

13

4:30 pm

Coffee break & Networking

15

4:50 pm

Media Moneyball

Drew Casey

Google, Inc

Similar to baseball’s Moneyball Moment in the early 2000s, where teams with less money used unconventional metrics to compete teams with more resources, increased data in marketing is allowing marketers to reimagine what performance marketing means. This session will talk about how technology and data has enabled the next wave in marketing measurement and marketing activation. Learn about how data can help reduce marketing complexity, make companies more customer-centric, and help organizations be more predictive.

16

5:40 pm

Drinks & Networking

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1

8:00 am

Venue open / Registration / Breakfast

2

9:10 am

Opening

3

9:20 am

Optimizing your mobile experience: findings from over 600 best practices

Lauryn Smith

Baymard Institute

From homepage to checkout - discover 8 ways to fine tune your site to ensure users are able to easily discover relevant products, learn the information that is important to them, and purchase without roadblocks. Baymard draws from findings from over 32,000 hours of research and 600 best practices.

4

10:05 am

Global/cross-border e-commerce trends and shopper trends

Deanna Kaufman

FedEx

Retailers are constantly thinking about how to grow online sales revenue but all too often focus on sales and shipping promotions without considering other facets of improving the shopper experience to convert sales and increase lifetime customer value. Deanna Kaufman, a leading e-commerce expert from FedEx, will overview shopper demands and current trends, and discuss opportunities to improve the domestic and global cross-border shopper experience, focusing on convenience.

5

10:45 am

Coffee break & Networking, Exhibition openning (until 7:00 PM)

6

11:20 am

Continuous integration/deployment for nopCommerce

Boyko Bonev

Nop-Templates

In this session we will talk about various nopCommerce build and deployment strategies using automation. We will discuss what is continuous integration/deployment and why we need one for our nopCommerce websites. We will demonstrate how to quickly setup a continuous integration/deployment server. At the end we will show how to use Docker containers for your nopCommerce builds and deployments.

Machine Learning and AI in nopCommerce

Atul Rungta

nopAdvance

In this topic we will discuss and showcase about implementing machine learning with AI based on either one of three (Google ML, Azure ML and Amazon ML) to boost sales and understanding customer behaviour by providing automatic "Product ranking", "Product recommendation", "Product suggestion" and "Relevant products". We will also discuss why ML with AI is very much important for an eCommerce website and how it can lead towards a great future to their businesses.

7

12:05 pm

Some tips how to improve performance of highly loaded sites on nopCommerce. The look as C# and MSSQL developer

Alex Tretyakov

FoxNetSoft

This topic will be interesting for C# developers. We plan to talk about different ways how the ones can improve the performance of nopcommerce without changing the nop kernel of libraries. I'll show how to look for the problem place and how to fix it using internal nopcommerce methods, ASP.NET and MSSQL Server features. Each problem can have many solutions. It's very important question to take the best and flexible solution. nopCommerce allows us to do a very elegant solution and it's important to take all technologies together in one box for the best performance.

Cutting-edge multi-platform omnichannel solution built on nopCommerce for boosting sales and customer loyalty

Dmitri Kovrizhko

ISDK

Building integrated solution with a various selling channels: website, auto-store (kiosks), mobile apps, messenger chatbots (FB, Telegram, Viber), web-site pushes. Increasing customers loyalty and encourage them to buy more with remarketing features and client service across all communication channels.

8

12:45 pm

Lunch & Networking

9

2:00 pm

Developing Nop Plugins and Themes the Agile Way

RJ Hatch

Bayshore Solutions

RJ will cover how to efficiently deliver high-quality nopCommerce plugins and themes, while working in partnership with a remote team, using agile methodology.

Testing your way to increase sales

Jon Ballard

Foremost Media

Are you looking to sell more products on your website? That's easy, just get more traffic right? Not so fast, more traffic is great but the real low hanging fruit might just be increased conversions. Join conversion rate expert Jon Ballard as we dive into some real-life examples of CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization) in action. Learn what to test, how to test it and how to report your results so you look like a marketing rock star in your organization. In this interactive session, Q&A is encouraged and as time allows, we will even choose several participant websites for some group analyzation to help you get started on your CRO journey.

10

2:45 pm

Serverless Workflows with Azure Functions

Cecil Phillip

Microsoft

Today, it's hard to have a conversation about the cloud without talking about serverless computing. Like any new shinny tool, you might be wondering what you can do with it or where it a good place to use it. In this talk, we'll get an overview of serverless and the types of scenarios it enables. We'll take a look at Azure Functions and see some demos of how quickly we can get started building serverless solutions. Some topics we'll discuss include triggers, services integrations and monitoring. In addition to that, we'll dive into the Durable Functions feature for creating stateful workflows.

eCommerce Search - Role of Search in UX and conversion optimization

Krunal Jariwala

nopAccelerate

We will be discussing on how search is shaping the eCommerce user experience, the crucial role it plays in conversion, what your visitors expects and how you can fill the gap and find new opportunities.

11

3:25 pm

Coffee break & Networking

12

3:50 pm

Custom Safety Products case study

Alexander Moss

Aperture Labs

We will be talking about building a SaaS based product configuration engine that can be integrated with and presented on 3rd party sites. It allows their customers to apply their logos and branding to the products before purchasing them and being able to see.

Unified commerce

Aman Sood

TMotions

Unified commerce has become a trendy buzzword over the last few years, but what does it actually mean? Modern consumers expect a seamless shopping experience across all channels and devices available to them. One of their expectations is the ability to have a check which location has the item they want to purchase and then immediately set up its delivery either to the store or the customer’s home. If your retail chain doesn’t offer that, then possibly some of your customers have already pledged their allegiance to the retailer that does. That’s where unified commerce comes in. By consolidating all your physical and digital channels in one place, it delivers accurate, real-time data that allows you to easily understand and meet your customers’ expectations.

13

4:30 pm

Coffee break & Networking

14

4:50 pm

Rocket Man

Cory Mekanik, Yevgeny Chan

Irvine Software Company

From this presentation, you will learn how ISC makes nopCommerce take off like a rocket, igniting Leads into Sales to boost your business into the stratosphere. The Challenge was to use nopCommerce as a starting platform, develop an enterprise level eCommerce system that includes: integration to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS); HubSpot CRM; implementing Software as a Service (SaaS); user-driven customer home pages and a native Product Content Management System (CMS).

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nopCommerce conference attracts key eCommerce business owners, project managers and developers. It’s a chance to catch up with the latest eCommerce technologies and trends, meet the right people to talk to and evolve your business!

Latest dev news

nopCommerce has been created by techies and always stays up-to-date with the latest technologies. So, what to expect this year? You will be the first to know about the new version of nopCommerce, all updates and a road map. To evolve your skills in ASP.NET Core we invited speakers from ASP.NET Core team. You will be also interested in building your cloud skills in Microsoft Azure.

eCommerce success

You will learn how to boost your sales and to increase your store's functionality based on real success stories of nopCommerce merchants. Moreover, this year at nopCommerce marketplace exhibition you will find products and services needed for growing your business and talk to vendors in person.

Best place ever

It’s going to be our 4th conference. Amsterdam, New York and now Las Vegas. We always choose cities with a lot of attractions so our guests can combine business matters with having fun. After two days full of useful talks and networking we all deserve a big party! Your favorite eCommerce platform team, partners from all over the world, cocktails and casino atmosphere - there are some good reasons to join nopDays 2018.